[TriLUG] OT: Hijacked Browser Typos

[Tanner Lovelace]

Thanks William.

David, what tweaks do you think he would need to do?
>From the description of his environment:

"I use four machines at home and a notebook when I travel, so setting up
a local caching DNS would be a lot of solution for a little problem."

This is almost the exact same setup I have at home.
I am not currently using my own caching name server
but have in the past.  The steps to set it up are as follows:

1. Install the caching nameserver package on a machine.
2. Start the caching nameserver.
3. Go into your router config and specify the IP of that machine as
the first name server.

Note this all assumes the use of DHCP to get addresses (which,
I believe, is a fair assumption).  But, even with stretching it
far enough to get a second item out of "starting" the name server,
it is *not* a lot of work.  It's extremely simple to do.  And, if
you use a linux based router (i.e. WRT54GL with OpenWRT)
you can install the caching nameserver directly on the router
itself.

I fail to understand how people can think of something so simple
as being overly complicated.  Please indicate what "tweaks" you
are referring to.

Cheers,
Tanner

On 4/18/07, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> Unless you have observed behavior I haven't, Tanner doesn't troll.
>
> --
> William Sutton
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Dave Sorenson wrote:
>
> > Technically you are correct. He "could" have set it up as you suggested,
> > that would have been easy. What validates my statement is with his
> > requirements he would have needed to tweak it more than a standard out
> > of the box configuration. Thats what I meant about more effort than he
> > wanted to do.
> >
> > So we are both right unless you are trolling.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > > Yes, I saw that.  That's not what I was replying to, though.
> > > You said it might be "more effort" than he wanted to do and
> > > I was pointing out that it was no effort at all.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Tanner
> > >
> > > On 4/18/07, Dave Sorenson <dave at logicalgeek.com> wrote:
> > >> In a different reply he said he didn't feel like that would work for his
> > >> situation.
> > >>
> > >> DS
> > >>
> > >> Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > >> > Effort?  It's dead simple.  In Red Hat based distros, back when I
> > >> > used them, there was even an "caching-server-x.y.noarch.rpm"
> > >> > package that would do _all_ the work for you.  A quick search
> > >> > for a similar Debian style package doesn't turn up anything.
> > >> > Perhaps someone else can post about that.
> > >> >
> > >> > Cheers,
> > >> > Tanner
> > >> >
> > >> > On 4/18/07, Dave Sorenson <dave at logicalgeek.com> wrote:
> > >> >> sure, but that might be more effort than he wants to do...
> > >> >>
> > >> >> DS
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Steve Litt wrote:
> > >> >> > Wouldn't just outfitting his box with a caching DNS referring to
> > >> >> the root DNS
> > >> >> > servers fix this problem?
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > Thanks
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > SteveT
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 08:59, Dave Sorenson wrote:
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >> Earthlink has set their DNS to return the squatter page to unknown
> > >> >> >> requests like verisign tried to do last year. It breaks a lot of
> > >> >> >> anti-spam stuff as a side "benefit" too.
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> I'd try changing who you are using for DNS lookups. I have a
> > >> >> meeting to
> > >> >> >> go sleep through or I'd apply Goggle-fu, but I seem to recall
> > >> >> >> alternative DNS services having been discussed here before. You
> > >> might
> > >> >> >> try a search on the archive.
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> Dave
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> Scott Chilcote wrote:
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >>> J.C. Jones wrote:
> > >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >>>> What browser are you using?
> > >> >> >>>>
> > >> >> >>>> jcj
> > >> >> >>>>
> > >> >> >>> Usually Firefox.
> > >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >>> The same thing happens in IE6, Konqueror, Mozilla, lynx, and
> > >> >> links on
> > >> >> >>> various Linux and Windows op systems though.
> > >> >> >>>
> > >> >> >>> --
> > >> >> >>> Scott C.
> > >> >> >>>
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